Current affairs notes on 16/06/2018
1.India Women's Cricket team opener Smriti Mandhana will
become the first Indian player to appear in Kia Super League - the women's
cricket super league in England.
2.Karnataka Bank has unveiled a novel card variant 'KBL
Deposit Only Card'. The card aims to enable hassle free cash deposit
transaction at Bank's 24x7 e-Lobby services. This card is specially meant for
Bank's Current/Overdraft customers. By using this card they can perform card
based cash deposit transactions even with higher deposit limit.
3.As a part of Kerala government's tourism promotion
programme, 'Yoga Ambassadors Tour',a specialized trip for yoga professionals
from around the world was inaugurated by Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad
Yesso Naik.
4.Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met World Bank
CEO Kristalina Georgieva in Washington DC to seek assistance for a Multimodal
Transport Corridor and the Rural Livelihood Project which aims to provide
sustainable livelihood enhancements in 10,000 villages in the state.
5.Naya Raipur is now the 10th Smart City to be operational in
the country, along with 9 other cities including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat,
Pune, Nagpur, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Bhopal and Kakinada. Naya Raipur is one of
the three smart cities of Chhattisgarh selected under the smart cities mission.Prime Minister Narendra Modi also recently
inaugurated India’s first integrated greenfield smart city project at Naya
Raipur.
6.Gujarat government has expressed its inability to divert
434 MCM water for Maharashtra in Tapi basin as requested by Maharashtra as part
of the Par-Tapi-Narmada inter-state river link project. The projects envisages transfer of surplus water
of rivers in Maharashtra and south Gujarat to feed the command area of the
Miyagam branch of Narmada canal. It will save water in Narmada dam, which will
be taken to Saurashtra and Kutch.
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